No mere victim of a tyrannical king, Henry VIII’s second wife is portrayed not just as a monarch’s lover and spouse, but as a mover and shaker in England’s Protestant Reformation in Howard Brenton’s play “Anne Boleyn.”

Boleyn’s religious devotion, her inability to deliver the son her husband desires and Henry’s wandering eye doom her, but not before she has a chance to make her mark on history. Seventy years later, James I stumbles on banned books owned by Boleyn, a discovery that eventually leads to the creation of the King James Bible.